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2025 NAACP Image Awards for Literature

The NAACP Image Awards honor the outstanding achievements of people of color in the arts. Here are this year's nominees and winners.

Chicago Public Library

40 items

  • Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee
    PaperbackNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024. — FIC WILLIAMS
  • Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee, Outstanding LIterary Work - Debut Author winner
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FIC JOHNSON
  • Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction winner
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — FIC COLE
  • Love & Whiskey

    the Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

    Weaver, Fawn, 1976-
    Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction winner
    BookNew York : Melcher Media, [2024] — TP591.D36W43 2024
  • The 1619 Project

    a Visual Experience

    Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee
    BookNew York : Clarkson Potter, 2024. — E441.A163 2024
  • The Jazzmen

    How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

    Tye, Larry,
    Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, [2024] — ML385.T94 2024
  • Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee
    PaperbackPortland, Oregon : Tin House, [2024] — FIC OKONKWO
  • AfroCentric Style

    a Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture

    Neal, Shirley (Ghostwriter),
    Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee
    BookCelebration of Blackness and identity in pop culture — E185.625.N36 2024
  • Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee
    BookNew York : Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — FIC SANGOYOM
  • Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, [2024] — FIC CHAMBERS
  • Bits and Pieces

    My Mother, My Brother, and Me

    Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-
    Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee
    BookAshland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, [2024] — PN2287.G578A3 2024
  • By the Time You Read This

    the Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness : Her Story in Her Own Words

    Kryst, Cheslie,
    Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Forefront Books, [2024] — RC464.K79A3 2024
  • Do It Anyway

    Don't Give Up Before It Gets Good

    Cobbs-Leonard, Tasha, 1981-
    Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee
    BookColorado Springs : WaterBrook, [2024] — BV4598.3.C633 2024
  • Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — KF8745.J25A3 2024
  • Medgar & Myrlie

    Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

    Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-
    Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography winner
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, [2024] — F349.J13R45 2024
  • I Did a New Thing

    30 Days to Living Free

    Brown, Tabitha,
    Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional nominee
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — BF637.S4B8193 2024